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Dade Hayes Finance EditorQuibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s beleaguered mobile streaming startup, got 910,000 people to sign up for free 90-day trials upon its April launch, according to new data from research firm Sensor Tower.The bad news, according to the company: Only 72,000 subscribers stuck around and decided to pay $5 a month (or $8 without ads) for the service, out of 4.5 million total downloads of the app.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNot a whole lot of people who sampled Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi premium mobile-streaming app for free are forking over money to pay for it after their gratis trial periods expired, according to new research estimates.

Peter White Television EditorThree months after launch, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form service Quibi is entering its first awards season.As the nascent platform, which is still finding its feet with subscribers, kicks off its debut FYC campaign, Deadline has assembled a virtual roundtable of creators and stars to explore how it lured Hollywood A-listers to the second screen, what they really thought of it when they first heard about it, the creative process, the importance of

many of us wondered if Quibi could deliver on its central promise – to refashion the style of streaming into “snackable” bites – or if, teetering under the weight of its massive funding and true who’s who of talent as the world shut down, it would become shorthand for an expensive mistake.The service, the brainchild of the DreamWorks Animation cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg and the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman – two billionaires deeply entrenched in Hollywood and Silicon Valley

Ted Johnson Joe Biden continues his fundraising blitz on Saturday morning with an event hosted by Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg.This is Quibi founder’s first fundraiser for Biden since he became the presumptive Democratic nominee, and the event is expected to bring in a long list of top Hollywood executives.During the primary, Katzenberg spread his money around during the primary season, co-hosting events for multiple candidates.

It’s now mid-June, just over two months from the launch of the streaming service, Quibi, and all signs are pointing to a launch that was incredibly flawed, to say the least. The service has fallen well short of its modest expectations and is spending insane amounts of cash just to keep its name in the streaming conversation.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorQuibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg says the slow start of the mobile streaming service since its April 6 launch has provided “almost a beta” period that gives the well-funded start-up a chance to regroup.In an online video conversation with Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries hosted Thursday by SeriesFest, Katzenberg maintained Quibi is poised for a rebound in the second half of 2020 as states reopen more fully.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorQuibi, built for mobile-only viewing by an audience envisioned to be phone-toting millennials, now wants to get on more living-room TVs.The company, founded by ex-movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, has been in talks with both Roku and Amazon about building native apps for their connected-TV platforms, Variety has learned.

It’s common knowledge that the April launch of Quibi didn’t go as well as the company had hoped. After a first week where the app was downloaded millions of times, the new streaming platform that focuses almost entirely on mobile viewing quickly plateaued and fell out of the Top 10 download lists on mobile devices.

Quibi is implanting pay cuts for senior executives as its two-month-old entertainment app struggles to catch on with viewers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Senior executives, including CEO Meg Whitman and chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, will take a 10 percent pay cut in an effort "to tighten our belt," they wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday morning that was shared with The Hollywood Reporter.

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Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman pushed back Wednesday against a Wall Street Journal report the new streaming service was considering laying off 10% of its approximately 250 employees.

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Quibi — the subscription-based streaming platform that delivers super-short-form shows to mobile devices — launched in April, but things haven't gone as well as hoped.

Is Quibi a hit? Shoot, will Quibi even survive to 2021? Well, founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Witman have already tried to blame its tepid launch on the Coronavirus pandemic so that’s probably not a good sign. And, almost eight weeks after launch it’s currently ranked no.

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Jeffrey Katzenberg is copping to the disappointment that has been Quibi's soft launch into entertainment's coronavirus-era ecosystem. The shortform video app, which gained 1.7 million views in its first week, quickly departed the Apple Store's 50 most downloaded free iPhone apps after and is currently ranked at No.

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LOS ANGELES — New streaming service Quibi, which offers entertainment and news in episodes of 10 minutes or less on mobile phones, has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times since its April 6 debut, founder Jeffrey Katzenberg told Reuters on Wednesday.

Megan Imbres, Quibi's head of brand and content marketing, is leaving the company a few weeks after the shortform video streaming service launched. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Imbres sent an email to employees regarding her departure on Wednesday.

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Rip your TV off the wall and flush it down the toilet, because you won't be needing it anymore — Quibi is finally here. The much-anticipated (by some) mobile-only short-form streaming app has launched, with 50 shows all under 10 minutes an episode from big names like Jennifer Lopez, LeBron James, and Reese Witherspoon.